instance meaning
EN
[ˈɪnstəns] 
US FR instance 
- NounPLinstancesPREinsta-SUF-ance
- OBS Urgency of manner or words; an urgent request; insistence.
- OBS A token; a sign; a symptom or indication.
- It sends some precious instance of itself/ After the thing it loves. Hamlet IV. v. ca. 1602
- OBS That which is urgent; motive.
- Occasion; order of occurrence.
- A case offered as an exemplification or a precedent; an illustrative example.
- One of a series of recurring occasions, cases, essentially the same.
- One's own death is an 'accidental' event, simply another instance of the general rule that human beings die.
- OBS A piece of evidence; a proof or sign (of something).
- (computing) In object-oriented programming: a created object, one that has had memory allocated for local data storage; an instantiation of a class.
- (massively multiplayer online games) A dungeon or other area that is duplicated for each player, or each party of players, that enters it, so that each player or party has a private copy of the area, isolated from other players.
- (massively multiplayer online games) An individual copy of such a dungeon or other area.
- OBS Urgency of manner or words; an urgent request; insistence.
- VerbSGinstancesPRinstancingPT, PPinstanced
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- In the few instances where the initial description is couched in the past tense, immediate reversal occurs and the scene is contemporized by the listener.
- A whirlpool is an instance of a vortex produced by ocean tides, or by a hole underneath where the water would drain out, such as in a bathtub.
- Rare instances of misconduct or instances of irreproducibility are translated into concerns that science is broken.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of instance in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Intransitive verbs
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- fr instance
- en instances
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- en instanced
- en instance in
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "instance" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.